11/03/2002 (Agence Europe) - In an interview published by The Financial Times, the President of the European Commission, Romano Prodi, restated his conviction that the European single currency needs a European economic government, alongside the European Central Bank. "The euro has a mother - in the bank - but not a father. (…) This is economic policy. You need the father to educate the kid, to work with him, take amusements", he said, urging yet again for greater coordination of economic policies. Furthermore, he expressed his "real worries" about the prospect of a Europe where there would be a sharp increase in income differentials.